Trapped in his own cellar, he struggles to survive among once harmless everyday paraphernalia, now suddenly magnified into a 'world of giants'. A Robinson-Crusoe-type adventure confined to the space of a cellar, with the most banal, familiar things turning into an exotic and challenging backdrop as Scott's dimensions change.
In the end, it becomes clear that 'getting back to normal' is no longer possible. Yet loss of hope also comes with a sense of acceptance: "And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away and in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God there is no zero. I still exist!"
Lots of thanks to Uli for the tip.
2 comments:
Thank you for putting up this wonderful summary of the movie! Which reads even better, as I gradually return from a week of expected feverish physical exhaustion. The story sometimes feels to me like a parable of a human life. For the young the world looks like a place to form, a land of vast opportunities just out there to be grappled. As we travel along our paths of life, however, the world growths. The number of branches not taken increases and we learn more and more about the depth and the expanse of the world and feel smaller and smaller in it. And then, quite unexpectedly, comes acceptance and with it the realization that we are part of it, no matter how small. And the circle closes -- yet with a twist like completing a round on a Moebius strip.
Yes, I think you're right. It's definitely a process of growth, of inner development. If we're lucky, we are humbled into feeling (and accepting) our own smallness, yet without being resigned. And yes, the circle (if it is indeed a circle) must be a Moebius strip...
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